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ONOMASTICON I I I

GEO RGE H. SCHEET Z Peo ria, Illinois

In his November 1978 article, II Logopoeia,l\ Philip M. Cohen defines his title word as l1a coined word meaning Iword-coining. III This defini­tion does not do an e stabli shed word justice. Logopoeia was defined by Ezra Pound - - who may have coined it - - in A BC of Reading ( 1934); and while 10gopoeia l1 is literally I'making of words, I' Pound gives the word'1

a much richer definition. The accepted meaning of this and most (all?) othe r - poeia wo rds (from the Greek poiein to make) are in the followingJ

onomasticon. Perhaps this should have been subtitled Much Ado About I Making I !

CHR YSOPOEIA gold- making; transmuting into gold EPOPOEIA : epopee 1. epic poetry; the epic genre; also, an epic poem

2. a series of events, or narrative, of epic character ETHOPOEIA delineation of character (Rhetoric) LOGOPOEIA charging language with meaning by inducing the effects of

both phanopoeia and melopoeia, thus stimulating the intellectual or emotional as sociations which have remained in the receiver I s con­sciousness in relation to the actual words or groups of words em­ployed (Ezra Pound, q. v.)

MELOPOEIA the art or theory of inventing melody (Music); charging language with meaning by inducing emotional correlations by the sound and rhythm of speech (Ezra Pound, q. v. )

MYTHOPOEIA a creating of mvth or giving rise to myths ODYNOPOEIA the induction of labor pains ONOMATOPOEIA 1. formation of words in imitation of natural sounds

(Philology) 2. a word so formed (Philology) 3. the use of words whose sound suggest the sense (Rhetoric)

PATHOPOEIA rhetorical stirring of passion (Rhetoric) PHANOPOEIA charging language with meaning by throwing the object,

be it fixed or moving, on to the visual imagination; lite raIl y J making visible (Ezra Pound, q. v.)

PHARMACOPOEIA 1. a book containing a selected list of drugs, chemi­cals, and medical preparations, with descriptions of them, tests for their identity, purity, and strength, and formulas for making the preparations, especially one issued by official authority and recog­nized as a standard 2. a collection or stock of drugs

PROSOPOPOEIA originally, representation of an absent pe rson as speaking, or of a dead person as alive and present; later, personifi ­cation ( Rhetoric)

RHYTHMOPOEIA rhythmic art or method

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The word poeIn I1 derives from the saIne Greek root; and I originally11

suspected 11 cornucopia" to be a close relative, but its derivation is froIn " copious. 1\ Odynopoeia is in Dorland I s Medical Dictionary, and the others (except for logopoeia and phanopoeia) can be found in Web­ster T s New Inte rnational Dictionary, Second Edition.

- OLOGIES & - ISMS: A THEMATIC DICTIONA R Y

This is the title of a dictionary edited by Howard G. Zettler under the direction of Laurence Urdang (VerbatiIn editor) , and published by Gale Research COInpany in 1978 for $18. It is a collection of more than 3,000 defined words, the Inajo rity end­ing in -isIn/-ist (1,261), -graphy/-Inetry/-philia/-Inancy ( 1,168) , and -ology (463) ; there are at least as Inany Inore undefined variant spellings or closely-related words given. The words appear in an alphabetical index, and are also ar­ranged in Inore-or-less logical groupings, Inuch in the style of the 0 riginal Roget the sau rus.

This book is very siInilar to 1 ISIns: A Dictionary of Words End­ing in -IsIn, -Ology, and -Phobia, reviewed by Murray Pearce in the August 1972 Word Ways and reprinted the saIne year; it is currently available in England for 90 pence. However, , ISIns is only about half the size of the current work, with only 1,500 defined entries. The classification systeIn used in - Ologies & - ISInS is Inore general than that used in Is.ms; fo r exaInple,I

1 Lice I in the latter is subsuIned under I Insects I in the forIner, I LaInplight' , unde r ' light I , and ' Lung 1 , unde r 1 Body'. How­ever, even when both books use the saIne classification, there is no guarantee that the saIne terInS will appear. Of the four en­tries under 1 Land' in ' ISIns, three appear under' Politics! in -Ologies &-IsIns, and one is Inissing; conversely, the two items under' Landi in -Ologies &-IsIns are missing in 'IsIns.

No sources are given for the words in the new book; on the other hand, ' ISIns indicates the dictionary (or other printed source) it obtained a wo rd froIn if it is a hapax legoInenon (or cited in onl y one dictionary) .